Greatness

This guy built an Earth sheltered home in a very similar manner to what we are planning, The differences are the he used concrete blocks for the walls, whereas we are planning on doing poured walls, and that he only has about a foot of earth over his house, whereas we are aiming at 5-10 feet.

Earth Shelter at PineCrest And Underground Primer.



The main thing that he said that resonated with me was that it's much easier to design a house for the land that you buy, as opposed to trying to fit your design in an un-savory situation. Given, the possibility up here is mainly for the flat land around hugo, it still pays to be flexible.

Also, this site has a great little narration about a micro-hydro-electric dam that this guy built, It gives about 400 watts, 9.6 KWh, more than enough to make up the deficit in an active electrical household.

Micro-hydro.

That is all.